evercookie is a javascript API available that produces extremely persistent cookies in a browser. Its goal is to identify a client even after they've removed standard cookies, Flash cookies (Local Shared Objects or LSOs), and others.

evercookie accomplishes this by storing the cookie data in several types of storage mechanisms that are available on the local browser. Additionally, if evercookie has found the user has removed any of the types of cookies in question, it recreates them using each mechanism available.

Specifically, when creating a new cookie, it uses the following storage mechanisms when available:

The safest way I know to check out the website linked to at the top of the quote would be to boot Puppy from a live CD with the puppy pfix=ram boot option. Alternatively, boot from a multisession DVD and don't save to it when you shut down.

Well... I hope Mozilla is on this... a new browser option under the cookie section to prevent "evercookies" from being set... Until everyone starts using them (Hulu, YouTube, Google et al) and we can't get sites to run without allowing them...! Then there'll have to be a cleaner to wipe them... they're starting to sound like viruses and rootkits!

Two problems with that. When you whitelist or allow a site in Noscript how do you know it won't have evercookies?

When I try and add Noscript to Seamonkey in fairly recent Puppies it doesn't work. (Does anyone know which version of Noscript works with 1.1.18 SM?)

Presumably a script could be written in Linux to look at creation times and dates after you close a browser and just delete anything stored in those various locations?

Or maybe you could mount a virtual filesystem at the start of a browsing session and delete it when you have finished? You'd have to put all the cookies and URLs you wanted to keep somewhere else though.

Hmm, addressing the lawyers (bar room or otherwise) in our happy band, what criminal charges might you or I face if we sought to interfere with someone else's computer without their consent (or even knowledge)?

Minor Pentagon-hackers appear to get crucified, even outwith the USA.

Wherever you are, what is your own state's legal position on interfering with someone else's kit? I could go to jail if I sought covertly to tweak your box - does BigBiz get away with this somehow?

and maybe all newbies except me can follow the instruction but I feel very unsure if I am able to.

so I would appreciate if many of us try these advices out and tell as much as possible what puppy we tried it on.
If we have the browser outside of the pupsave or not?

Which script we used and step for step how one set it up.

And to end it all.

I heard about FaceBook that they kind of have build a database with "contacts" of all their users.

So even if you and me are serious about our email addresses and so on. Facebook know our email addresses telephone numbers maybe even if we never have been on facebook through our friends and relative sharing their contact lists with facebook who share it with their partners.

So these evercookies maybe is even more sinister than we think now. Through the accumulative databases they know about us even if we delete everything. Because out friends tells them about us.

They did a lot of tests giving evidence for this to be true. Using persons that never had been at FB and FB still had several of their friends showing up.

and worse. Even if one give a totally fake name and address and fake birthday FB still knows who you are through the MAC address of the hardware you use and the IP range.

So one would need to go to a public library and give false data to them or else them would unknowingly reveal your true identity to FB.

If you hate the idea of social networking and have never been on Facebook, then Facebook knows nothing about you. Correct? So how come when you set up a profile on the social network for the first time, it can suggest friends for you?

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not an ideal solution though

In this thread at the PC-Guide forums [at least I think it was there], I first saw mention that an evercookie stores itself in many [8 listed here] different/diverse locations...
And only one need remain un-eliminated for the evercookie to restore all [8?] locations.

Hence you MUST eliminate all to finish it off.

What I do is...
Use a pupsave on a Flash Drive...
And make the necessary configuration and code change...
So I can choose to NOT SAVE back to the pupsave [neither during, nor at shut-down] any changes made to the session.

And naturally, I keep backups of all the various pupsaves at various points in time.

1. Shortly after beginning to use Puppy...
I began using smm ["SaveMyModem"] to look at my emails whilst they are still on the POP3 server.
Almost all are deleted whilst still on the server.

2. If I ever need to fetch any emails onto the PC...
At this time...
I will boot into my old operating system [Win2000Pro], which is installed to the 1st partition on the 1st internal HDD....
And use Outlook Express to fetch them, and store them all in that location.
Actually I moved the storage folder [and various other things] off the Windows partition [C:]...
To a suitably named folder on D: [2nd partition on the 1st HDD].
[So I can restore the Windows partition without any of the "Moved" items being affected]
There is definitely an advantage to keeping all the fetched emails, and the address book, all in one location.

3. When I first began using Puppy...
I installed Thunderbird...
And began fetching some->[certain_chosen_type_of] emails into that Puppy [a full install of Boxpup-413]...
Except I moved the Thunderbird storage folder off the Boxpup filesystem, and symlinked back...
So that I could restore a backup of the Boxpup folder system without losing recent emails [they would be untouched by the restore].

4. I've since migrated to a newer PC...
And haven't yet got around to installing Thunderbird on any of my Puppies:
[6-off 1GB pupsaves, each in 1 of 6-off 1.3GB partitions, on an 8GB Flash Drive] plus...
[6 suitably named Puppy folders, in the root folder of the 2nd of my 2 internal HDD's].
So far I've COPIED 3 of the pupsaves from their partition on the Flash Drive, into their own folder on the internal HDD.

Sorry I lure us to go off topic. We have to take this by private message instead Okay.

Hi, Sylvander.

Quote:

Posted: Wed 30 Dec 2009, 08:55
1. I'd like to see a good Puppy replacement for Mailwasher.

I use SaveMyModem [smm], but it isn't quite as good as Mailwasher.
e.g. Cannot copy and paste [or click] URL's to easily go to a webpage.
No means to set a rule for hiding [and deleting] emails from a particular sender or domain.

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